Finally! Someone who's read Piketty

Monday 14 July 2014 12:09 BST

Long story: Thomas Piketty

At last! We spent last week asking bigwigs including David Cameron, George Osborne and Mark Carney if they’d managed to read Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Now someone has finally come forward. “I have read Piketty,” BBC economics correspondent Duncan Weldon tweeted us last week. His verdict? “Reasonably interesting, too long and the graphs are rubbish.” We’re using our copy as a doorstop.